- "Once an ass, always an ass." #
- "It's not fun to go out and lose every time." #
- "They're hot right now and I'm not, and that's not a very good combination." #
- "My world was crashing." #
- "I got the crap kicked out of me." #
- "When you're not getting the wins you should get, it makes you feel like punching a wall." #
- “It's much more fun hitting them than giving them up. I don't think I've done that since Pony League back in the day." #
- "You can't beat yourself up and think you're the worst." #
- "I am the worst pitcher in baseball." #
- Costco or Nordstrom: "Costco. It's very simple. I don't need to live an expensive life to be happy. Buy in bulk and save." #
- "One day you'll be sitting on your couch, and you'll look up at the TV and there I'll be pitching. And then you'll realize what (a jerk) you were." #
- "My goal was just to be in "Faces In The Crowd." I just wanted to see my little mug shot there." #
- "They love to boo me. Now they have a reason." #
- "I drew a turtle and didn't get a response back [from art school.] I was so devastated. It was good, too." #
- "I am getting my butt handed to me." #
- "It's been depressing, and mentally I've been exhausted trying to figure it out. People forget we have the same emotions as everybody else, and when we do bad we have sleepless nights." #
- "You just want to scream a little bit and take out your frustrations. It hasn't been a good stretch for me." #
- Asked what he was throwing in the self-portrait, Tomko looked at it for a moment, then smiled. "Probably a home run," he said. #
- "What's going on, Skip? What's the word?" #
- "Every article, even the good articles, kept referring to me as a 15-game loser. I said, 'You've got to take that preface out. It's killing me.'" #
- "I don't celebrate strikeouts. I don't strike out a lot of people." #
- "I had a rough start my first 2 1/2 months out of season, as bad as you can get. I like to say they were the worst ever in the history of baseball." #
- "It doesn't matter, to be honest. It doesn't matter if I felt great or felt like shit. It's still six runs in six-and-whatever innings and a loss." #
- "Anytime you get booed, it's not fun, especially at home. It's tough. At that point, I didn't even care. I just wanted to shut everybody up and give us a chance to make a comeback." #
- "It's tough not to let it eat at you and keep you up at night, which it has." #
- "I've got nothing to say, guys. I've got to get out of here." #
- "It's hard not to [lose sleep]. I don't like to lose, don't like the team to lose. I've got stinking nine losses already and it's not even the All-Star break. It's brutal. Cut it up any way you want, it's horrible." #